The Logging Experts
The Logging Experts
UTC is the so-called “universal coordinated time”. UTC was formerly referred to as “GMT” (Greenwich Mean Time) and is the basis of the international time zone system. For example, New York, USA is 5 hours behind UTC. So if it is 12 noon in New York, the UTC time is 5pm. The MonitorWare line of […]
A non-reliable IP transport protocol. It provides best effort delivery. Typically, in LAN environments UDP packets are never lost. However, in WAN scenarios or with heavily loaded LANs, UDP packets might be lost.
Syslog Facility is one information field associated with a syslog message. It is defined by the syslog protocol. It is meant to provide a very rough clue from what part of a system the message originated from. Tradidionally, under UNIX, there are facilities like KERN (the OS kernel itself), LPD (the line printer daemon) and […]
The “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol”. This is an Internet standard for sending email messages. Virtually all major email systems are either based on SMTP or at least offer gateways to SMTP capable systems. SMTP is used for sending email. It can not be used to pick up email messages. For this purpose, protocols like POP3 […]
Do you want to receive syslog in a Windows environment? Take a look at WinSyslog! Receive, process and store your syslog data from routers, firewalls or linux/unix servers with this easy to configure application in your Windows environment. Troubleshoot network problems or be alerted, all quickly and easily. Take a Quick Tour to WinSyslog to […]
Created by Wajih-ur-Rehman What is the difference between SETP and Syslog and what advantages does SETP offer over Syslog? Following are some of the points related to traditional Syslog: Its a UDP based protocol. It doesn’t provide any guarantees of message delivery. It doesn’t parses the data so most of the fields of MonitorWare Database […]
Article created by Tamsila-Q-Siddique. WinSyslog and EventReporter are subset of MonitorWare Agent. This means that there would be no difference in the set up creation.You need administrative privileges on each of the machines. This is required both for installation and configuration. Make sure you log on with a sufficiently privileged user account. Download your desired […]
If you have to create an archive of past events, this scenario is for you. The main focus here is storage of event data. Potentially, data is stored for a long time and eventually never being overwritten. It is also highly likely that data will be written to a read-only media like CD-R. Event archive […]
If you are interested in receiving a consolidated view of your overall system state and activity, you are probably interested in the analysis features of the MonitorWare system. Please note that this chapter is currently being expanded. As such, the examples and uses given herein do only reflect some of the things that can be […]
Article created by Rainer Gerhards. In all but the easiest scenarios event data needs to be relayed between different machines. Please note that relaying is also often referred to as “forwarding” – both terms have the same meaning in the context of this documentation. A typical relay scenario might look like follows: Here, devices send […]